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War-torn childhood shapes a young woman's journey.

If you're moved by stories that weave personal struggle with historical events, "Girl at War" would resonate with you. Sara Nović's debut captures a harrowing yet deeply human coming-of-age experience against the backdrop of the Yugoslav Wars. The narrative’s power lies in its raw, emotional honesty that bridges the gap between past and present, showing how the scars of conflict shape a life long after the guns have fallen silent.

  • ALA Alex Award (2016)
  • Women's Prize for Fiction Nominee for Longlist (2016)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction, and for Goodreads Debut Author (2015)
  • The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Nominee for Longlist (2015)
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ISBN: 9780812986396
Authors: Sara Nović
Date of Publication: 2016-03-22
Format: Paperback
Related Topics: Coming of Age, War
Goodreads rating: 4.01
(rated by 30934 readers)

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For readers of The Tiger’s Wife and All the Light We Cannot See comes a powerful debut novel about a girl’s coming of age—and how her sense of family, friendship, love, and belonging is profoundly shaped by war. Zagreb, 1991. Ana Jurić is a carefree ten-year-old, living with her family in a small apartment in Croatia’s capital. But that year, civil war breaks out across Yugoslavia, splintering Ana’s idyllic childhood. Daily life is altered by food rations and air raid drills, and soccer matches are replaced by sniper fire. Neighbors grow suspicious of one another, and Ana’s sense of safety starts to fray. When the war arrives at her doorstep, Ana must find her way in a dangerous world. New York, 2001. Ana is now a college student in Manhattan. Though she’s tried to move on from her past, she can’t escape her memories of war—secrets she keeps even from those closest to her. Haunted by the events that forever changed her family, Ana returns to Croatia after a decade away, hoping to make peace with the place she once called home. As she faces her ghosts, she must come to terms with her country’s difficult history and the events that interrupted her childhood years before. Moving back and forth through time, Girl at War is an honest, generous, brilliantly written novel that illuminates how history shapes the individual. Sara Nović fear
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War-torn childhood shapes a young woman's journey.

If you're moved by stories that weave personal struggle with historical events, "Girl at War" would resonate with you. Sara Nović's debut captures a harrowing yet deeply human coming-of-age experience against the backdrop of the Yugoslav Wars. The narrative’s power lies in its raw, emotional honesty that bridges the gap between past and present, showing how the scars of conflict shape a life long after the guns have fallen silent.

  • ALA Alex Award (2016)
  • Women's Prize for Fiction Nominee for Longlist (2016)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction, and for Goodreads Debut Author (2015)
  • The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Nominee for Longlist (2015)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.